Posted for the benefit of Mr. Mesozoic
Time was, not too long ago, that you couldn't swing a dead cat around in
#twisted without hitting some vastly overqualified unemployed bum. Doing a little poking
around I am surprised to find that this is no longer the case.
I've been referred a number of jobs, most in the NY/Boston area but a few out on the left coast, that involve Python and Twisted (and some PyWin32) work, and I haven't found any qualified people yet.
If you are around one of those areas or willing to telecommute or relocate, please drop me a line.
I've been referred a number of jobs, most in the NY/Boston area but a few out on the left coast, that involve Python and Twisted (and some PyWin32) work, and I haven't found any qualified people yet.
If you are around one of those areas or willing to telecommute or relocate, please drop me a line.
I just found out that there is a
class at UCLA that uses Twisted as part of its curriculum. Even better,
this class is apparently taught by Paul Eggert, of Bison (and other free
software) fame.
I don't even know what to say about this.
I don't even know what to say about this.
As predicted, members of my
family and various friends were better to me than I deserve on
my birthday.
I have yet to figure out exactly which features to fund, but I think that I'm going to be giving out small prizes, probably in $20US increments, for each one. For those of you across the puddle, that's about €0.02 at a time - but it's still enough to buy dinner over here.
Thanks to everyone who sent a donation in, and thanks especially to Kim, who trudged up to Boston and helped contain the hellmouth in my apartment.
I have yet to figure out exactly which features to fund, but I think that I'm going to be giving out small prizes, probably in $20US increments, for each one. For those of you across the puddle, that's about €0.02 at a time - but it's still enough to buy dinner over here.
Thanks to everyone who sent a donation in, and thanks especially to Kim, who trudged up to Boston and helped contain the hellmouth in my apartment.
(As any ADD sufferer will testify, piles are the enemy. When one's cohabitant has an entire house and 3 whole lifetimes worth of stuff to pile up, the piles can set you up for a crushing and continuous defeat, which is definitely no good for one's mental health, creating a feedback loop where one is discouraged or even afraid to organize things.)Kim defeated even the piles which we had made an uneasy truce with, the ones which we had actively tried to clean up before and had been resigned to treat as simply a messy storage solution rather than a problem. With the piles trapped and cornered, the floors are walkable and the surfaces usable. Who knew that using a vacuum cleaner could be so much fun?
As some of you may be aware, my birthday is coming up soon. I'd like to say
publicly the same thing that I've said several years running: if I didn't
get a present for you, don't get a present for me. I have plenty of stuff
lying around - way too much, in fact. Ying has been busily EBaying off the
things that we don't use, and we're not close to halfway done.
However, I realize that these words are an empty gesture, especially to my family, who are routinely generous and wonderful to me regardless of how callous and awful a person I am. So for those of you who are hell-bent on making something of this most recent anniversary of my birth, I will stoop to a new low with this suggestion. Send money: .
I'll put down the self-deprecation for a moment and explain. A major source of anxiety for me these days is the state of the Twisted project's direction. I know there are several things that need to happen to push it to the next level of success, and there are plenty of people who only need a little bit of encouragement to do those things. However, I am spending most of my time and encouragement on another project right now, and it doesn't look like I'm going to get a reprieve any time soon. I've also got a personal deal with myself that I'm not going to spend any more of my own monetary resources on Twisted until something related to it has made me a millionaire ;-).
There has been plenty of discussion recently on the mailing list about problems with the project's public presence, even some specific recommendations about soliciting donations.
It would make a terrific gift for people to put some money towards this goal. It would encourage me personally to go out and write up some explanations of what needs to be done, secure in the knowledge that I'll actually be able to incent other peoples' contribution of time and my effort writing those specifications wouldn't be wasted. Ultimately, It would take a huge burden off my mind to see Twisted's progress towards my goals for it get unstuck.
By the way - since I'm asking for this as a gift, not as an official fund drive, I'm not going to post public statistics or fundraising goals or anything like that. If I had the time and energy to do a real fund drive I probably wouldn't be posting anything more than that initial paragraph. In fact, if there are a lot of donations I will probably contribute some of them towards the work required for setting up such a drive.
However, I realize that these words are an empty gesture, especially to my family, who are routinely generous and wonderful to me regardless of how callous and awful a person I am. So for those of you who are hell-bent on making something of this most recent anniversary of my birth, I will stoop to a new low with this suggestion. Send money: .
I'll put down the self-deprecation for a moment and explain. A major source of anxiety for me these days is the state of the Twisted project's direction. I know there are several things that need to happen to push it to the next level of success, and there are plenty of people who only need a little bit of encouragement to do those things. However, I am spending most of my time and encouragement on another project right now, and it doesn't look like I'm going to get a reprieve any time soon. I've also got a personal deal with myself that I'm not going to spend any more of my own monetary resources on Twisted until something related to it has made me a millionaire ;-).
There has been plenty of discussion recently on the mailing list about problems with the project's public presence, even some specific recommendations about soliciting donations.
It would make a terrific gift for people to put some money towards this goal. It would encourage me personally to go out and write up some explanations of what needs to be done, secure in the knowledge that I'll actually be able to incent other peoples' contribution of time and my effort writing those specifications wouldn't be wasted. Ultimately, It would take a huge burden off my mind to see Twisted's progress towards my goals for it get unstuck.
By the way - since I'm asking for this as a gift, not as an official fund drive, I'm not going to post public statistics or fundraising goals or anything like that. If I had the time and energy to do a real fund drive I probably wouldn't be posting anything more than that initial paragraph. In fact, if there are a lot of donations I will probably contribute some of them towards the work required for setting up such a drive.